Poets, Scottish
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Autograph poem signed, by Allan Cunningham, c 1825
Item — Box CLX-A-371
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0130
Scope and Contents
Autograph poem signed, titled 'Mariners Song', three verses of 8 lines each, starting "A wet sheet and a flowing sea / A wind that follows fast / And fills the white and rustling sail / And bends the gallant mast / And bends the gallant mast my boys / While like the eagle free / Away the good ship flies and leaves / Old England on the sea ... ", addressed on the verso to Miss Henney, 1 side 4to., no place, no date (c. 1825).
Dates:
c 1825
Lecture on 'The Poets and Poetry of Scotland'., late 19th-early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW223
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing a lecture given by Alexander Carmichael on 'The Poets and Poetry of Scotland'.
Dates:
late 19th-early 20th century
Poem entitled 'Aoir Nan Rodan' and accompanying story, 14 September 1885
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/34
Scope and Contents
Poem entitled 'Aoir Nan Rodan' and accompanying story collected from Mr Kenneth MacLean, merchant, Lochmaddy [Loch nam Madadh, Uibhist a Tuath] beginning 'Aonais nan robh oirnne fregair'. The story tells how John MacLean [Iain mac Eachain], innkeeper, Lochmaddy sent for Donll Mac Eoin [Donald MacLean], Carnaish [Cairinis/Carinish] and another bard Aonas [Angus] to get rid of his rats 'which were like to destroy every thing'. The bards requested a drink first ['giarachadh teanga'] but were...
Dates:
14 September 1885
Poems of William Hamilton of Bangour, Esq., ca. 1730-1750
Item
Identifier: La.III.451
Scope and Contents
Manuscript collection containing poems of poet and soldier William Hamilton of Bangour (1704-1754). The most comprehensive edition of Hamilton's poems (1850) is based on this manuscript.
Dates:
ca. 1730-1750
Recent Gaelic poets, 1896
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/30
Scope and Contents
A script for a lecture delivered by Makinnon on 16 March 1896.
Dates:
1896
Song entitled 'Mac Iain 'ic Sheumais' and accompanying note, 10 February 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/74
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Song entitled 'Mac Iain 'ic Sheumais' collected from Mairead Donullach [Margaret MacDonald], aged 79 years, Gearrai iain, Malacleit, N[orth] Uist [Gearraidh Iain, Malaclete, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] beginning 'Na nead an eoin bhinnich, Bha [th]u innis na Ruai'. The song is composed of fifty lines and has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere. The accompanying note describes Mairead as 'A poor old woman in a hut who had been at service in Vallay [Bhàlaigh] for a long time...
Dates:
10 February 1870
Story entitled 'Do'ull Gearr no Cearr' including a short verse, 24 January or February 1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/13
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Story entitled 'Do'ull Gearr no Cearr' collected from Janet Currie, age 64, Staoinebrig/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The story tells how Niall Mòr acquired the right from Mac 'Ic Ailean [Clanranald] to Baile-bhaird at Staolaigearai [Baile a' Bhàird, Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and how his son Donald Gearr lost that right. Donald had married twice and his second wife realised that her children would come second to those of his first wife so she burnt...
Dates:
24 January or February 1865
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Chlann Mhuirich', c1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/17
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Chlann Mhuirich' [The Red Book of Clann Mhuirich] collected from Seonaid Nic Mhurich [Janet Currie], aged 64, Staoinebrig, Uist D[eas] [Staoinebrig, Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] on 24 February 1865. The story tells how in a time of great violence the Iarla Leanna [Earl of Lennox but queried by Carmichael as Earl of Antrim] escaped to the mountains with his son. Feeling compelled to return to his people who he knew were in danger, he left his son in...
Dates:
c1865
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Clann Muirich', 24 January or February 1865
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW113/12
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Leabhar Dearg Clann Muirich' collected from Seonaid Nic Muirich [Janet Currie], age 64, Staoinebreac, Uist a chinne Deas [Staoinebrig/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The story tells how in a time of great violence the Iarla Leanna [Earl of Lennox] escaped to the mountains with his son. Feeling compelled to return to his people who he knew were in danger, he left his son in the mountains telling him to go whichever way God told him to go. Muireach, the Earl's son...
Dates:
24 January or February 1865
Third Anniversary Address to the Alexander Anderson 'Surfaceman' Club, c 1913
Item — Box CLX-A-345
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0061
Scope and Contents
This is a notebook containing the third Anniversary Address to the Alexander Anderson 'Surfaceman' Club. It is not dated but internal evidence points to 1913. The speaker is not identified but is presumably the S. M. Murray of Edinburgh, whose name is in pencil at the beginning of the notebook. The speaker is, in fact, a last-minute stand-in, who apologizes for not having known Anderson personally, briefly sketches his life, then describes his poetic themes with copious quotation. It's not,...
Dates:
c 1913